CIC 2012 Conference
Community Indicators Consortium 2012 International Conference
Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland (map)
November 15-16, 2012
Do you want to connect up the trends moving our communities? Do you want to know where to apply pressure to bring about the change you can envision? Does the distance between facts, perceptions, and tools for change seem too wide to bridge? The CIC IMPACT SUMMIT will be a forum for all of us engaging these questions and sharing lessons of the impact we have achieved for our communities, our networks, our businesses, our clients. Join our network of practice and research as we showcase leading measuring and monitoring initiatives, impact and communications strategies, and innovations in community health, sustainability, education, economic development and more. This highly interactive conference will present a variety of formats for sharing lessons, asking difficult questions, getting answers, and connecting with colleagues and collaborators new and old.
Conference Goals
- To provide a lively, engaging peer learning and sharing experience
- To explore how our emerging field can contribute to solutions in a highly challenging fiscal/political environment
- To continue the development of communities of practice around each conference track
- To connect these communities of practice to the global and national network of indicators action and research
Call for Proposals and Award Nominations
Proposals are invited for presentations and interactive sessions which run the gamut of designing, operating, implementing, communicating, maintaining, and evaluating indicator systems in different contexts of policy and community impact. We especially encourage concepts that introduce path-breaking strategies and case studies, cutting edge technologies and processes, and examples that offer inspiration or ask the tough questions that we all should hear. Submit proposals here.
The Community Indicators Consortium is pleased to invite nominations for the Impact Award and two Leadership Awards to be announced prior to our conference in November 2012. Submit nominations for these awards here.
Registration
Early bird registration is now open!
Early bird rate: $315 members / $410 nonmembers (through August 31, 2012)
Regular rate: $350 members / $450 nonmembers
Join CIC to receive the discounted member rate!
Tracks
Healthy People, Healthy Communities: These sessions will include the work of local health innovators – community residents, public and private agencies, and foundations – working to assess and address health disparities and improve the fundamental drivers of health.
Education Pipeline: These sessions will detail initiatives to track trends and measure progress in learning and education from “cradle to career,” from early childhood to professional development and lifelong learning.
Sustainability and Regional Equity: Does employing an indicators approach truly serve the challenges of setting and moving toward sustainability, climate neutrality, and other holistic goals in our communities? What are the most promising innovations and hardest learned lessons in sustainability indicators in defining a new development path?
Economic Development and Innovation: How are indicators approaches employed to support initiatives to generate jobs, bring economic opportunities to communities, and weather long-term economic shifts?
Cross-Cutting Themes
Local to Global: Data, Indicators, and Tools - What are the most appropriate and effective scales for indicators work? Are their trade-offs to negotiate in engaging at the neighborhood, community, and regional scales in making our work count? What value is to be gained at home from connecting with global efforts to measure progress and redefine quality of life?
Approaches: Collective Impact, Results-Based Accountability, Measuring Impact, etc. - How do we achieve the change that our targets demand? What frameworks are working to create impact? How do we create the partnerships and collaborations that give us the best information, respect community priorities and support strategic action?
Community Indicators-Performance Measures Integration - Building on a recurrent theme from previous CIC conferences, these sessions will explore recent developments and promising opportunities for integrating community indicators and performance measures through case studies and applications.
Equity and Addressing Poverty - We will explore the notion that, in wealthy country contexts, more than absolute poverty, it is the relative disparity between those at the top and the bottom of the income distribution in communities that is the source of disadvantage and that prevents progress on many levels.
Contact Us
Please contact us at conference@communityindicators.net with any questions or comments regarding the conference.
Stay connected to CIC through our Facebook and LinkedIn pages!
